Thanks for this post. I took a pretty long break from ESO and came back to my NB main and unpacking their frustrating state. I played my alt Magplar and Magden and substantiated my feelings. I'm working harder on Nightblade to do less damage. It doesn't feel good and the rotation makes me frustrated, especially when the results are subpar.
I hope some of the changes make things better but our primary damage sources are so bad that we are losing class identity trying to use any dots that help us build more dps.
spacefracking wrote: »Yeah, this is... not good for pve magblade... at all. People were already running around cyrodiil 1 shotting with magblades.
I don't understand </3
I can't even believe this. Stamcros *still* parsing 123k this patch, and magblade went down even further...
Idk how much more tales of tribute and overland I can play until I go find a new game.
RedFireDisco wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »is this now or after the U35 PTS patch that is currently curbstomping all classes except NB? lol
That's like saying Sorc got heaps of buffs, you know, an extra 2k heal to dark conversion, minor protection for bound aegis, minor endurance to empowered ward, twilight got cost reduction and attronach got a massive 30% AoE buff.
Which are all true.
The issue is that Magblade is the worst class in the game whilst stamblade are pretty good and they are NOT the same.
Ranged Magblade got the biggest nerfs this patch with heavy attacks from stealth being nerfed to the point where they're literally useless. We also got a 10% speed loss to concealed weapon, our back bar getaway slot.
Marked target now costs magicka, so, the destro debuff is now better than the class morph because who on earth wants a heal after a kill?
Magblades need some serious love.
Swallow soul sucks. You can run wretched vitality, slot silver bolts and have contingently 28% more damage to your spammable. How stupid is that? Even Crushing shock does more damage when you factor in status effects and the armor bypass, not to mention it's 20% cheaper which is massive.
Cloak doesn't work many times but it still costs nearly 4k and we really on it for our resolve buffs but when it doesn't fire not only are you a sitting duck, you're a sitting duck with no armor buff and 4k less magicka to defend yourself.
It's so far from fair on the weakest class. There's a reason only us masochist run magblade in PVP.
All 3 of us.
Just roll a Temp or Dk and railstomp the comp
RedFireDisco wrote: »spacefracking wrote: »RedFireDisco wrote: »
It's so far from fair on the weakest class. There's a reason only us masochist run magblade in PVP.
All 3 of us.
It's completely ridiculous. Patch after patch for at least a year now. And I expect little to change this update.
Rebalancing is fine, but leaving a class dropping like a stone for so long is pure negligence.
I'm done. Deleted my characters. Gave away all my stuff.
I spent 8 years learning to play Magblade and now it's literally unplayable unless you tank or gank and that's not right at all.
If you don't get damage from heavy attacks then a spammable from stealth ain't killing anybody and you can't even use Caluurions now because heavy attacks are the proc so your burst combo is cut in half.
I'm done. I don't need balance but nerf after nerf for the last 5 years is enough.